[Footnote 121: Our author has quoted from memory. The lines are--_At nostri proavi_, &c. and afterwards--_Ne dicam_ stulte, _mirati_.--MALONE.] [Footnote 122: A mistake for eighth.] [Footnote 123: This remark is unfounded; for the words are--_et longæ visent Capitolia pompæ_. Ovid. MET. l. i. In the preceding quotation, for _verbo_, we should read _verbis_; and for _metuam summi_,--_timeam magni_.--MALONE.] [Footnote 124: The insurrection in Scotland, in Charles I.'s time, inflamed Cleiveland as much as the nation. We have often heard of poetic fire, but he is the only author who calls for a bucket of water to quench it: Ring the bells backward, I am all on fire; Not all the buckets in a country quire Shall quench my rage-- ] [Footnote 125: Our author (as Dr Johnson has observed) "might have determined this question upon surer evidence; for it [Medea] is quoted by Quintilian as Seneca's, and the only line which remains of Ovid's play, (for one line is left us,) is not found there."] [Footnote 126: One of the old theatres, and of the lowest order among them.] [Footnote 127: Although a zealous admirer of the author, I am at a loss to see much merit in the plot of "The Bloody Brother, or Rollo" of Fletcher. The hero is a Duke of Normandy, who first kills his brother in his mother's arms; then has his chancellor chopped to pieces, and thrown to the dogs; beheads his tutor, kills an officer of his guards for burying the reliques of his chancellor, and finally is stabbed by the captain of his guards, and succeeded in his dukedom by his cousin; a person of no note through the play, but who, being left alive when every other person is killed, is raised to the throne as a matter of necessity. This is the history of Geta and Caracalla, and a very disagreeable one it is, but certainly not the plot of a play. As for the farce mingled with it, there are three state criminals led to be hanged, who join in the old catch, And three merry boys, And three merry boys, And three merry boys are we, As ever did sing Three parts in a string, All under the triple tree. ]